by Mark Silva First Lady Michelle Obama sat next to "the Boss'' last night. Seated on her other side at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington was the president of the United States, there to...

A moment of silence, please, for comedic actor Harvey Korman, who died yesterday at age 81. I spent most of last night on YouTube, checking out old clips of his appearances with Tim Conway on The Carol Burnett Show. When...

This has been a hell of a week for the dearly departed in television, with the deaths of Sydney Pollack (a classic TV director before he was a classic big screen one), and the amazing (and amazingly) prolific Earle...

Rosie's back. And you knew she would be. NBC has just confirmed -- officially -- reports that Ro will headline a variety show on Nov. 26, the night before Thanksgiving, and most notably, the last day of sweeps. Here...

Oh, I get it. Sure, it took me a while (but then everything usually does.) Bit by bit, press release by press release, NBC is leaking out the names of "special guests" on next week's Rosiepalooza so that blogger...

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